"Lynx, like all large wild carnivores, are always opportunistic in their habits, so do on occasion kill sheep, however only ...

“Lynx are perfectly able to live outside in the wild in Scotland, but these individuals are used to heated, warm environments and food being prepared, and humans. “They are totally unsuitable for ...

“Scotland has a history of illicit guerrilla releases,” said Darragh Hare, a research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, citing releases of beavers and pine ...

AN ANGRY Cumbrian resident has claimed any move to reintroduce lynx to the Cumbrian countryside would have a serious impact on an already declining wildlife population. In a letter to The ...

“When they told us they were definitely lynx we were worried at the time,” she said. “All the sheep in fields are very close to the roadside.” After the first pair were promptly recaptured ...

A popular touring exhibition called The Missing Lynx will visit colleges and universities across northern England from the ...

The National Farmers’ Union Scotland said the idea of placing lynx back into the wild remained “wholly unacceptable” and continues to cause “angst and anxiety” among sheep farmers. David Field, the ...

The Missing Lynx Exhibition, highlighting lynx reintroduction to the UK, will visit colleges and universities across the ...

The four lynx appeared to have been abandoned in a lay-by in the Dell of Killiehuntly, an area of the Cairngorms on the edge of agricultural land where cattle and sheep are reared - an area ...

While advocates highlighted the benefits of reducing a deer population that is damaging Scotland’s forests, opponents focused on the potential threat to sheep and ground-nesting birds.